What are carbon credits? - Carbon credits are a new financial commodity representing certified reductions in the emission or accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun and help regulate the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere.  As concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases increase due to human activities, global average temperatures may rise - with potentially costly consequences.  Man-made greenhouse gases produced from industrial, agricultural, and municipal sources include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and several other chemical compounds.

  How are carbon credits created?- Carbon credits can be created from agricultural, waste management and renewable energy projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  By implementing appropriate practices and technologies according to specific protocols, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions can be monitored, documented, independently verified, and registered to an account (e.g. within the Chicago Climate Exchange or other voluntary greenhouse gas program) as certified, tradable carbon credits.

Environmental Credit Corp. specializes in the creation of carbon credits from:

    * Agricultural methane and nitrous oxide emission reduction
    * Agricultural soil and forest carbon sequestration
    * Landfill methane emission reduction
    * Wastewater methane and nitrous oxide emission reduction
    * Renewable energy production and energy efficiency improvements